  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  This drawing is a preparatory sketch made for the DIA&acirc;&#128;&#153;s painting of Watson and the Shark (acc. no. 46.310).
  
  
  Title
  Rescue Group
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1777 and 1778
  
  Artist
  John Singleton Copley
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1738-1815
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Black chalk heightened with white, squared for transfer in red chalk, on green-gray laid paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Sheet (irregular): 14 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 21 3/4 inches (36.2 &Atilde;&#151; 55.2 cm)
  Framed: 24 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 30 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 1 1/8 inches (61.6 &Atilde;&#151; 76.8 &Atilde;&#151; 2.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Drawings
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  City of Detroit Purchase
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  48.203
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
